When he was five, Dalí was taken to his brother's grave and told by his parents that he was his brother's reincarnation,[13] a concept which he came to believe.[14] Of his brother, Dalí said, "[we] resembled each other like two drops of water, but we had different reflections."[15] He "was probably a first version of myself but conceived too much in the absolute."[15] Images of his long-dead brother would reappear embedded in his later works,